. £000 WORTH OF TIN COMING INTO iL^RBLE EAR FROil WOOI,, (By courU'sy of the High Commissioner of Australia.) But all this depends on better railway communica- tions. At present the pastoral, like the mining industry, suffers under crippling disabilities, especially in marketing its products. Also droughts, though recurrent, are not universal at one and the same time. One of the great means of fighting droughts will be strategic pastoral railways, whereby stock can be shifted rapidly from area to area. Central Australia, properly linked, will play a large part in thi
. £000 WORTH OF TIN COMING INTO iL^RBLE EAR FROil WOOI,, (By courU'sy of the High Commissioner of Australia.) But all this depends on better railway communica- tions. At present the pastoral, like the mining industry, suffers under crippling disabilities, especially in marketing its products. Also droughts, though recurrent, are not universal at one and the same time. One of the great means of fighting droughts will be strategic pastoral railways, whereby stock can be shifted rapidly from area to area. Central Australia, properly linked, will play a large part in this strategic scheme. Australia is taking its north to south trans- continental railway seriously, and two main schemes hold the field. They are based on the two natural divisions of Central Australia indicated above. The one plan is to complete the Oodnadatta to Pine Creek railway roughly along the Overland Telegraph Line (western route) ; the other would take the line east- wards from Marree (Hergott Springs), up through deep-water harbour. Eventually, also, the northern fringe of Central Australia may drain economically northwards towards Asiatic markets. Besides railways, greatly improved telegraphic, telephonic, and postal services will be needed if these lonely spaces are to be humanised, and light railways, motor traction, and even aeroplanes, will no doubt play their part. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Central Australian development is its essentially pan-Australian character. Australia has increasingly to be thought of as a unity, and the development of Australia as an economic whole is making rapid strides. The solution of Central Australian problems is bound both to typify and to reinforce this tendency. Moreover, though distinct, the problems of Central Australia are largely bound up with those of the Northern Territory,
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